Doku Umarov: Domodedovo Attack Was My Work

Islamist rebel leader Doku Umarov said on Monday he had ordered a suicide bombing that killed 36 people at Russia's busiest airport last month.

Umarov, 46, speaking in a video carried by the Islamist website www.Kavkazcenter.com, said there would be further such attacks in pursuit of an independent Muslim state in Russia's Caucasus region -- a territory embracing Chechnya, Dagestan and other nearby territories.

He described the attack on Moscow's Domodedovo airport on January 24 as a "special operation" directed against the Russian people and its prime minister, Vladimir Putin. Umarov appeared in the video, made on the day of the attack, wearing combat fatigues.